Daniel Heidkamp in ‘Bathers’ at Morgan Lehman Gallery

Is this vacationer’s vacant stare an expression of total relaxation or haunting anxiety?  Sketchy hands and underdeveloped legs put the focus on this man’s shadowy head and torso in ‘Another Side of Bad Blake,’ a drama wrapped in a portrait by Brooklyn painter Daniel Heidkamp.  (At Chelsea’s Morgan Lehman Gallery through Aug 23rd.)  

Daniel Heidkamp, ‘Another Side of Bad Blake,’ oil on canvas, 2012.